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CHERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chert mean? 

CHERT (noun)
  The noun CHERT has 1 sense:

1. variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartzplay

  Familiarity information: CHERT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHERT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("chert" is a kind of...):

silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chert"):

taconite (a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore)

Derivation:

cherty (resembling or containing chert)


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